People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — All Honor to Union Men. [ARTICLE]

All Honor to Union Men.

Motorman and Conductor: “For ten years," said Potter Palmer, of Chicago, “I made as desperate a fight against organized labor as was ever made by mortal man. It cost me considerably more than a million dollars to learn that there is no labor so skilled, so intelligent, so faithful as that governed by an organization whose laws recognize that an employer has rights that labor must respect, and whose officials are well-balanced, level-headed men who can distinguish between a real and an imaginary grievance. When the men in my mill first organized and sent their committees to me to discuss questions at issue between us, my indignation at their presumption was unbounded. “The idea of men whom I employed daring to dictate the treatment they should receive so incensed me that I forthwith discharged them all and precipitated a strike. Well, I tried nonunion men and swore I would never allow a union man to enter my service. I persisted in this fashion for ten years, until I had transformed one of the bestpaying plants in the West into an almost hopeless wreck. Everything went wrong. Men got drunk, machinery broke down, product was returned, orders turned down, expense increased and revenue diminished until one was unable to meet the other. I finally , realized my mistake and corrected it, and now I employ none but organized labor, and never have the least trouble, each believing that the one has no rlicbt to oppress the other."